Recent Updates
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Justices rule for American woman in bitter custody dispute
Bankruptcy Law 06/15/2022The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday for an American woman who is involved in a bitter international custody dispute with her Italian husband over their young son. The high court threw out lower court decisions ordering the return of the boy...
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Indiana court strikes down emergency law fought by governor
Court Watch 06/07/2022The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday threw out a law that gave state legislators increased power to intervene during public health emergencies, agreeing with arguments from Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb that the move violated the state constitution.The...
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Federal court upholds state law on disclosing police records
Court Watch 06/04/2022A federal appeals court has upheld part of a 2020 Connecticut police accountability law that allows public disclosure of state trooper personnel files and internal investigations. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Thursday rejected...
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Man denies kidnapping charge in alleged murder-for-hire plot
Criminal Law 06/03/2022A Colorado man pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Vermont to kidnapping a man who was later found shot to death in a snowbank in 2018 in what prosecutors allege is a murder-for-hire case stemming from a financial dispute. Federal prosecu...
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Phillips Lytle plans move to Donovan
Legal Careers News 06/01/2022Law firm Phillips Lytle LLP confirmed Tuesday it has selected the former Donovan State Office Building as its lead choice for relocating, with Benderson Development Co. as the developer and the firm occupying about half of the building. David McNamar...
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German federal court mulls bid to remove antisemitic relic
Practice Focuses 05/31/2022A German federal court on Monday mulled a Jewish man’s bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old antisemitic statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached, and said it will deliver its verdict in the long-running dispute next month. T...
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Pakistani court orders probe into ex-minister’s arrest
Bankruptcy Law 05/26/2022A court in Pakistan’s capital has ordered an investigation into the controversial arrest of a former human rights minister over a decades old land dispute.Chief Justice Ather Minallah of the Islamabad High Court late Saturday ordered the probe ...
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Reality TV’s Josh Duggar gets 12 years in child porn case
Consumer Rights 05/25/2022Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced Wednesday to about 12 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of receiving child pornography.Duggar was also convicted of possessing child pornography in December, but U.S. District Judge Timothy Br...
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Pakistani court orders probe into ex-minister’s arrest
International 05/23/2022A court in Pakistan’s capital has ordered an investigation into the controversial arrest of a former human rights minister over a decades old land dispute. Chief Justice Ather Minallah of the Islamabad High Court late Saturday ordered the probe...
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Texas race tests abortion’s resonance with Democratic voters
Legal News 05/21/2022By the time Dr. Hector Gonzalez arrived in Laredo, Texas, in 2001, the last abortion clinic had already closed. He spent the next 20 years experiencing firsthand where the largely Hispanic and heavily Catholic community along the border with Mexico u...
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New Mexico advocates review plan aimed at education deficits
Practice Focuses 05/20/2022New Mexico’s governor has presented a long-awaited plan that would set goals for academic proficiency as the state struggles to resolve a lawsuit by frustrated parents who won a court ruling saying the state is failing to provide an adequate ed...
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GOP lawmakers, Ohio AG, want public safety a factor in bail
Class Action 05/16/2022Judges in Ohio would be required to consider criminal suspects’ threat to public safety when setting bail amounts under both legislation and a proposal for a state constitutional amendment that House Republicans were expected to approve Wednesd...